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Palestinians Maps

"The first map
(1946), approximately a year before Israel was created, shows that
Jewish communities owned no more than 6% of historic Palestine and
represented 30% of the population.

The second map spells out the
United Nations partition plan of 1947, which awarded the Jewish
community a state on 55% of the land alongside a much reduced Palestine
even though Palestinians were the strong majority of the land’s
inhabitants.

The third map (1948-1967) displays the armistice
lines from the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. In this map Israel controls 78% of
the land.

The fourth map is where we are today. In the 1967 war,
Israel took control of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The Israeli
occupation – now in its 45th year - of the West Bank is being made
permanent as Israel systematically takes more and more Palestinian land
to accommodate Israel’s massive settlement project to establish
irreversible “facts on the ground”. Over half a million Israeli settlers
now live in the occupied West Bank. Under international law, it is
illegal for Israel to move Israeli settlers into the occupied
Palestinian territories. Israel is on the verge of annexing 60% of the
West Bank.

These maps attract attention because they graphically tell a story of dispossession.

They
point to an important reality: that as Israel has expanded in what was
historic Palestine, the majority of the indigenous people of that land -
the Palestinians - have either been driven off their land, or, where
they remain, have no sovereignty and few rights."